So, we have to know that there is a great obligation on our...

So, we have to know that there is a great obligation on our shoulders, and the teachers and lauders have to understand that loving these [kindred] is above everything and it cannot be relinquished. If we love Allah, will we be able not to love those whom He loves?! Will we then be able not to love the deeds which He loves? Can one love Allah but not love those whom He loves? And can he love deeds which Allah Almighty hates? Can this be at all?

So, this statement of ‘Suffices us the Book of Allah, and we need nothing else’, is a blatant lie. It is as though one who says so says about the night as being daylight and say about daylight as being the night. There are many verses in the Book of Allah similar to this verse: “Be with the truthful”. This Book has distinguished the attribute of the pious from the sinners. Look and see who the sinners are and the pious are; can there be a belief in casting doubt and in distinguishing?

If so, it is the same like one says, ‘I believe in half the Qur’an and do not believe in its other half. Three hundred years ago, the Jews and the Christians said, “The condemnation of the Jews and the Christians must be deleted from the Qur’an, and nothing must be kept in the Qur’an except the worship matters.” Will the Qur’an then remain the same if we thus divide it? We will then say that the adoration, too, is not necessary.

The polytheists will say, “We, too, would like to maintain our status and our sins, and it is not necessary that we should believe in the Unity of Allah because we have our idols which we believe will intercede on our behalf” (“our intercessors with Allah”). So, if we suppose there is distinguishing, most people are idolaters and not believers; so, there can be no distinguishing in the religion of Allah. There can be no believing in part of the Book and disbelieving in the rest.

At the time of his death, someone admonished his sons thus: “Sons! Do not listen to those who call upon you towards Tawhid and to accept the creed, and deny the existence of Allah as much as you can because if you are vanquished and if you accept the existence of Allah, you will not be safe from the evil of these folks, and you will be their followers.

If they, for example, say that in performing the ablution, a woman must pour the water on the palm of her hand whereas the man must pour it behind the elbow, do you not have the right to do the opposite of what they say?